Michael Pitt: bad boy image contrived?

I think it is. I was reading somewhere that he changed. That he used to be fairly normal.

I think they're trying to create a new "James Dean". I'm just not buying this hard living, difficult druggie, polysexual bullshit.

Hollywood is all about "image making". It doesn't stop off screen.

We all know John Wayne wasn't John Wayne in real life. He was a mincing queen!

Anyone else possibly contrived to the extent of John Wayne and/or Michael Pitt?

by Anonymous

reply 66

07/05/2013

I'm not saying Michael Pitt has a secret life where he's married with 2.5 children, a dog, and white picket fence, but I doubt he's the total druggie polysexual asshole he's portrayed to be. I don't buy the JGL/Pitt romance either.

OTOH, we know people like Mickey Rourke are for real because he destroyed his face on purpose.

by Anonymous

reply 1

06/30/2013

John Wayne was no homo. Not in anyway shape or form.

by Anonymous

reply 2

06/30/2013

Oh, I think Michael Pitt has had a wee bit of man on man action.

by Anonymous

reply 3

06/30/2013

Michael is a nice guy, likes weed, does the tina from time to time. Somewhat self destructive on occasion.

by Anonymous

reply 4

06/30/2013

R4, any truth to the JGL romance?

by Anonymous

reply 5

06/30/2013

WHO?????????

by Anonymous

reply 6

06/30/2013

R2?

Oh dear.

by Anonymous

reply 7

06/30/2013

He was self-destructive enough to piss off Terence Winter and Tim Van Patten to the extent that a totally viable character like Jimmy was killed off at the end of the second season of Boardwalk Empire. And then his agents told him to go fuck himself.

by Anonymous

reply 8

06/30/2013

Michael Pitt from Boardwalk Empire

by Anonymous

reply 9

06/30/2013

But maybe that story was created to give him "bad boy credibility", R8. Although, I admit, it sounds pretty extreme that they would go to those lengths just to give a relatively unknown actor an image.

by Anonymous

reply 10

06/30/2013

Did he do any nudity on Boardwalk Empire, R9?

by Anonymous

reply 11

06/30/2013

Yes, from the back. Lucky Luciano gave us full frontal, though. In real life, that guy pings to me.

by Anonymous

reply 12

06/30/2013

Nope. You no get lucky with Lucky. I know that for a fact.

by Anonymous

reply 13

06/30/2013

Michael Pitt sure did plenty of nudity in "The Dreamers".

by Anonymous

reply 14

06/30/2013

Why R13? You tried to hit on him?

by Anonymous

reply 15

06/30/2013

Isn't Michael Pitt over already? Like quite some time ago?

by Anonymous

reply 16

06/30/2013

What happened to him, R16?

by Anonymous

reply 17

06/30/2013

R16, he's still working regularly, but I don't think he wants to be an A-list star anyway

by Anonymous

reply 18

07/01/2013

He doesn't, R18, so far. But then again, Johnny Depp said the same thing and look at him now.

by Anonymous

reply 19

07/02/2013

r16, using the term "over" like that makes you seem sexually undesirable.

by Anonymous

reply 20

07/02/2013

I remember the first time I saw Michael Pitt.

He was cast as Michelle Williams love interest in Dawson's Creek.

The first thing I noticed was, "My, what mushy mouth you have!"

The second thing I noticed as, "Why have they cast this queen to pretend to be in love with a girl?"

He butched it up Broadwalk Empire, but was a nightmare on the set, showing up hungover and forgetting his lines (if they weren't coke).

by Anonymous

reply 21

07/02/2013

Yeah, he was pretty butch on Boardwalk Empire. Are you telling me he's not that butch in real life?

by Anonymous

reply 22

07/02/2013

"butch"? "queen"? Who but effeminites use words like this?

by Anonymous

reply 23

07/02/2013

R23 = a queen who is "butch" only in her own mind. (NOTE: Don't open your mouth except for dick!)

by Anonymous

reply 24

07/02/2013

Pardon me, R23. Masculine/macho. Is that better?

by Anonymous

reply 25

07/02/2013

Isn't it interesting that the first insult femmy types instantly reach for is to claim that someone else is just like them?

by Anonymous

reply 26

07/02/2013

r25/r22, how about natural or normal? The idea of "macho," "butch," "queen" etc. are exaggerated caricatures that exist mostly in the minds of DL priss types. Most guys just be themselves and aren't into some cartoonish act.

by Anonymous

reply 27

07/02/2013

R26: You've pulled that one out of your shallow drawer of tricks before.

****** YAWN ********

by Anonymous

reply 28

07/02/2013

R27: You are overcompensating for something. Work it out with a paid therapist. Don't take it out on us.

by Anonymous

reply 29

07/02/2013

He looks strung out.

by Anonymous

reply 30

07/02/2013

r28, noticing what people actually do isn't some sort of "trick." If you don't like that others notice what you do, perhaps you shouldn't do it.

by Anonymous

reply 31

07/02/2013

Clicking on r29's troll-dar made my page yellow. I see someone is a bit upset. About..... something.

by Anonymous

reply 32

07/02/2013

What's with the black hair? It looks awful on him.

by Anonymous

reply 33

07/02/2013

r30, he "looks" like he's wearing sunglasses.

by Anonymous

reply 34

07/02/2013

[quote]The idea of "macho," "butch," "queen" etc. are exaggerated caricatures that exist mostly in the minds of DL priss types. Most guys just be themselves and aren't into some cartoonish act.

Yes! I don't know why this isn't obvious to more people around here. It's apparent that many DLers have these perceptions, and I just wonder what kind of world they live in. Cartoon is a good word for it I guess.

by Anonymous

reply 35

07/02/2013

He's involved in six projects right now. Not exactly out of work.

179th Street - Detective Peter McLane

???? The First

2014 Rob the Mob

2014 I Origins

2013 You Can't Win

2012 Seven Psychopaths

by Anonymous

reply 36

07/02/2013

Didn't he give a try at being a musician once and actually have a popular song back in the 90s? One of the lines had something in it about rowing a boat to China I think.

by Anonymous

reply 37

07/02/2013

I think he's hot as shit.

I would love to put my face in his arm pits and them suck him off.

by Anonymous

reply 38

07/02/2013

Hasn't he been engaged since 2009? What's with the 4-year engagement?

by Anonymous

reply 39

07/02/2013

[quote]"butch"? "queen"? Who but effeminites use words like this?

The crazed DataLounge "Effeminates Nut" is, to me, the most disturbing and bizarre DL character. Who gives a shit!? He can tie in a salami sandwich into his "You sound like EFFEMINATES!" screeching. Ugh, I bet he thinks he passes as straight!

by Anonymous

reply 40

07/02/2013

I would like to start this post by admitting that I am a Michael Pitt fan girl who would get on my knees anytime, anywhere for him no matter how nasty he is.

Back to the original question. Pitt claims that he was in reform school and that he lived on the streets of New York when he was young. There is a suggestion that he was a prostitute and that his bike courier job that he talks about is really just a way to say he was a drug dealer. He also claims that he has trouble reading, that he is basically illiterate, and so has to memorize scripts and had to hire a tutor to teach him about history. He says that when he started Dawson Creek that he was living in a squat pad in the projects. He said he identifies with Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix and understands through their lives the things he has to avoid. He was certainly a brat on the set of Hedwig and the Angry Inch... famously eating Doritos before the kiss scenes so that his breath would be nasty. He has also turned down some fairly big roles.

After all that he has said, I don't know that he is as much trouble now. You have to be fairly motivated to adapt a screenplay and then act in and direct the film. He stays active in fashion, his band Pagoda and film. He counts people like Allison Mosshart and Patti Smith as his friends... He seems like a punk rock boy who grew up and decided it was time to capitalize on all the things that fell in his lap when he was a young fuck up.

by Anonymous

reply 41

07/02/2013

The loon at r40 should probably read r26.

by Anonymous

reply 42

07/02/2013

All of that bio sounds fabricated to appear more edgy and rock n' roll than he really is.

Didn't he grow up in NJ? And he was already on DC when he was just a teen so what kind of awful life could he have led?

by Anonymous

reply 43

07/02/2013

So did he really have a hit song?

by Anonymous

reply 44

07/02/2013

That's bull, R41. He's from Orange NJ, from a middle class family. He never lived on the streets and I'm sure he can read just fine. And, no, he was never a prostitute.

If that's really what he said, he must've said it with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.

by Anonymous

reply 45

07/02/2013

I love tough guys, but I only thought he was hot-ish in Boardwalk Empire. I prefer a good deal more muscle than he has.

Which reminds me how ridiculous it looks when Nucky gets into a fist-fight and they pretend he's so bad-ass. He's short, old and featherweight, which makes him about as bad-ass as Don Knotts. The actual Nucky was a big fat guy, but they didn't want to copy Sopranos.

by Anonymous

reply 46

07/02/2013

Back in the 1920s, men didn't work out like they do today. If he had giant muscles, it would look fake.

by Anonymous

reply 47

07/02/2013

[quote]I prefer a good deal more muscle than he has.

So you like fake cartoonish looking bodies? Are you prissy in the way you present yourself.

by Anonymous

reply 48

07/02/2013

True I guess, but that doesn't help me get turned on by him. Overall, it came off as a little more macho posturing than actual macho.

For someone supposedly so strung out, he seems to do alright for himself. 6 movies in less than two years.

by Anonymous

reply 52

07/02/2013

He dated Asia Argento for a year or two.

He seems like a poseur to me.

by Anonymous

reply 53

07/02/2013

r51, Micheal isn't "skinny" he's pretty normal. But it's good to see you've listened to reason.

by Anonymous

reply 54

07/02/2013

You can't help but have a visceral reaction to this guy. He's a pretty boy who won't age well.

by Anonymous

reply 55

07/03/2013

You know nothing of the sort r55.

by Anonymous

reply 56

07/03/2013

Christopher Walken used to be kind of pretty, too. Look at him now. Even Leo isn't anywhere near as attractive as he used to be. He seems like he will follow in their shoes.

by Anonymous

reply 57

07/03/2013

What roles did he turn down, R41?

by Anonymous

reply 58

07/03/2013

Interview from Bullet:

Although West Orange is an upper-middle class suburban community, Pitt encountered his share of tribulations growing up. He hopped between high schools and juvenile detention centers before dropping out at 16. Pitt eventually moved to New York, where he became another struggling kid dabbling in crust-punk homelessness and cheap communal living, with the hope, like so many before him, of somehow subsisting on music, acting, or art. “I sort of bummed around Manhattan when I didn’t really have an address,” he says. “I moved to Brooklyn for financial reasons. Then I learned that there were a lot of people in the same financial situation that I was in.”

by Anonymous

reply 59

07/03/2013

"West Orange is an upper-middle class suburban community"

Ehh...not so much.

by Anonymous

reply 60

07/03/2013

West Orange is middle middle-class as far as I'm concerned.

by Anonymous

reply 61

07/03/2013

He may not age well, but as he is right now I'd let him go to the bathroom in my mouth.

by Anonymous

reply 62

07/03/2013

Not that this means anything...I KNOW, he's an actor, but how many gay/bi roles has he taken?

I saw Murder by Numbers, and it was definitely implied that he was gay. Any others?

by Anonymous

reply 63

07/03/2013

He wasn't gay in Murder by Numbers. It was based on the gay couple in the 20s, but obviously they did not carry over the gay theme.

by Anonymous

reply 64

07/05/2013

You're disgusting, R62. Keep your disgusting perversions to yourself.

by Anonymous

reply 65

07/05/2013

[R62]: #1 or #2? (not that it really matters, either way you're gross) Re: Michael Pitt, he actually is a good actor, but he's still young enough to take himself WAY too seriously. He'll grow out of it.

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